Monday, August 29, 2011

Steve Jobs resigns


Steve Jobs resigns
Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple. That the 56-year-old said on Wednesday in Cupertino (local time) with. Job changes in the supervisory board, said in a release of the group. Successor in the management team is therefore Tim Cook, who has been responsible for business operations as COO of the iPhone maker.

Steve Jobs
Image: Apple make on the reasons neither jobs nor the Group for more information. "I've always said that when the day comes that I no longer fulfill my duties and the expectations from Apple, can I be the first to know you can," Jobs wrote in a personal communication. "Unfortunately, this day has come."
He was sure that the brightest and most innovative days were before Apple. "And I'm looking forward to seeing a new role in the success of Apple and help him to."
Jobs had been taken in January due to health reasons, a further break from work. The founders of Apple has a cancer and a liver transplant behind. Represented were the CEO as with his break in 2009 by Cook, who now takes the helm.
Steve Jobs had founded the company in 1976 with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. In 1985, he had to leave Apple after an internal power struggle in 1997 and returned to the Board. Since then, Jobs has the once-ailing computer manufacturers out on the top. With the iPhone, which was launched in 2007, the company has revolutionized the mobile industry.
Jobs regarded as the intellectual father of the successful products iPhone, iPod and iPad. "Steve's exceptional vision and leadership have saved Apple, and the most innovative and valuable technology companies made," said board member Art Levinson. Apple's stock dropped by more than 6 percent of post-trade.
[Update]:
The resignation was not seen as indicating a sudden deterioration of Jobs' health, said a confidant of the financial news agency Bloomberg. Jobs've spent Wednesday in the Apple headquarters and attended a regular meeting of the Board of Directors. In recent weeks, but he was bound to his house and he felt weak.

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